… Minister of Power apologises
Olusola Bello
In what seems like someone waking up from his slumber, , the Ministry of Power after several days of agonizing experiences suffered by Nigerians because of power outages is claiming that it is not unaware of the current power outages/shortages bedeviling many parts of the country.
According to Aaron Artimas, Special Assistant on Media and communications to the Minister of Power, he said the problem is caused by the breakdown of some National Integrated Power Plants supplying electricity to the national grid. The plants are namely, Sapele, Afam,Olonrunsogo, Omotosho, Ibom, Egbin, Alaoji and Ihovbor. The Jebba Power Plant was shut down for annual maintenance.
Seven other integrated Power plants, namely Geregu, Sepele, Omotosho, Gbarain, Omuku, Paras and Alaoji are experiencing gas constraints while the Shiroro plant has water management problems.
This unfortunate development has drastically affected Power generation, thus effectively minimizing the national grid.
“ In view of this, the Hon Minister of Power Sale Mamman regrets this unfortunate situation and offers his sincere apology to all affected Nigerians on the inconveniences the Power shortages are causing.
He assures that the ministry through the appropriate Agencies is working assiduously to rectify the technical problems affecting the plants as well as resolving the gas issues to the others.
Sale Mamman further assures that the national grid will be restored to its previous historic distribution peak of about 5,600MW of electricity achieved early this year, so as to relief Nigerians from the current harsh climatic conditions and restore full economic activities.
